Lisp is a bit verbose for this kinda thing due to the nested syntax. But you can write it in
Python, Ruby, or any dynamic languages quickly, and press a button to have emacs call it and insert the result.

here's a Python version:

for x inrange(1,10):
for i inrange(1,10):
print"%(n)2d" % {"n":x*i},
print"\n",

You can save this in a file, for example temp.py. Then
type 【Ctrl+uAlt+| python temp.py】, then it'll insert the output in your cursor position.
(The 【Alt+|】 is the hotkey for “shell-command-on-region”.
The 【Ctrl+u】 is “universal-argument”. When the command “shell-command-on-region” gets a empty argument, it'll insert output in buffer. Normally, it places output in the “*Messages*” buffer.)

GNU Emacs dev, Richard Stallman, Personality Cult

got a email from GNU emacs bug people about a bug being fixed.

the bug was filed 2 years ago, and was fixed 1 year ago. See: bug#4408.

i've filed perhaps 40 in the past. Perhaps 10 are taken and fixed.

in general, got no thanks, no appreciation. This isn't just me. I've been involved with GNU Emacs dev (casually) for 5 years now. I've seen and read enough to know. Many developers who contributed far more to emacs, with code and packages, are treated like that. Under communism, of the FSF branch, you are just a node for the good of all. The people who got thanked, perhaps the only person, is Richard Stallman. Nobody else. His communism ideology made it that way.
He's now a Cult of personality.